For example, Microsoft's Windows Vista OS features BitLocker, an encryption feature built on Vista's Trusted Platform Module 1.2, a microchip that facilitates secured application sharing.

For example, the ones and zeros (bits) that make up the digital contents of a file encoded on the common 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard are scrambled around ten different times in a semi ...

Rather than encrypt a bit of text letter by letter (A becomes Q, B becomes H, etc.), Enigma-DS converts text into code based on language, sentence structure and words.

For example, the Intel Solid State Drive Pro 2500 series does encryption through a built-in engine. It follows the industry standard for encryption, Opal 2.0 so that it can easily be managed from ...

Thirty-Year-Old Encryption Formula Can Resist Quantum-Computing Attacks That Defeat All Common Codes ... an obscure encryption code created in 1978 is resistant to all known methods of quantum attack.

The most secure encryption code the U.S. has allowed to be exported has been broken in only 3 1/2 hours by a University of California-Berkeley graduate student. “It shows you that any kid with ...

As encryption needs have evolved, NIST has regularly collaborated with military agencies to develop new standards that guide tech companies and IT departments around the world.

Though the NSA has apparently cracked widely used encryption algorithms, security experts maintain that, properly implemented, encryption is still the best way to secure data.